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Gustaakh Ishq movie review
Produced by renowned fashion designer Manish Malhotra and his brother Dinesh Malhotra have produced this arty romantic film that is directed by Vibhu Puri. Vijay Varma, Naseeruddin Shah, Sharif Hashmi and Fatima Sana Shaikh play the lead characters in Gustaakh Ishq. Vijay Varma plays Nawabuddin Saifuddin Rahman who travels from Delhi to Maler Kotla in Punjab with a sole aim that to find the reclusive retired Urdu poet Aziz Baig (Naseeruddin Shah, who is hiding his identity and so he is now a watch-repair shop owner. Aziz Baig has written many poems and poems about his Forgotten Verses, but they haven't been published. So, convince him to print them so that Nawabuddin can save his father's printing press from closing down. He meets Aziz Baig's daughter, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Aziz Beg's loyal servant, a housekeeper named Attachi/Bhoore (Sharib Hashmi). There's a lot of friction a ....
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IC 814 - The Kandahar Hijack review
The OTT series IC 814 - The Kandahar Hijack released on and made for Netflix on 29th August 2024 is concerning everything you wanted to know about the darkest chapter in aviation hijack history of India. As the credits say the series is inspired by real events and includes an adaptation of a book titled ‘Flight Into Fear’ written by Devi Sharan (the original captain of IC 814) and Shrinjoy Chowdhury. It throws light on the events that led to and ahead of the subsequent release during the hijack of Indian flight IC 814. As it is a true story which envisages the utter failure of the bureaucratic machinery and the series also depicts an equal apathy of the coalition government of the time. When the negotiations with hijackers or commando action could have been completed on Indian soil as the plane first landed in Amritsar, it was sent hopping first to Lahore, then Dubai and finall ....
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Editorial
5 actors who outshined on OTT Platforms in 2022

OTT platforms have seen a colossal rise in the past few years. From romantic comedies to bone-chilling mystery-thrillers we have watched them all. Even though 2022 has been a mixed bag for B-town, OTT platforms have given some cutting-edge content, headlined by some prolific actors. Here we have listed the top 5 performances that outshined on OTT Platforms in 2022.…

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